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Forest Tenure Workshop

Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty

Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop April 21, 2011

The Environment for Development initiative arranged a Forest Tenure Impact Evaluation Workshop in connection to the World Bank’s annual conference on land and poverty in Washington D.C. on April 18-20. Recent developments in forest management institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania were reviewed during this workshop, and a potential impact evaluation program for forest tenure reform in East Africa was discussed. The workshop was held on Thursday April 21 and was open for all conference participants.

EfD researchers and other international experts presented an analytical framework for the interaction between forest policy and the responses by villagers, as well as empirical examples of such responses in terms of impacts on forest values, private tree plantations and energy use. Based on previous experiences from impact evaluations, a potential impact evaluation program for forest tenure reform in East Africa was discussed.

“Current and future forest tenure reforms hold a lot of promise in terms of improved forest quality, improved governance, empowerment of local institutions etc. However, we also know that the impact is likely to vary greatly depending on the design and implementation of these reforms. Economics has some powerful tools to help in the evaluation of interventions and although we have already done a lot, I am confident that we can contribute even more in the future.” says EfD Director Gunnar Köhlin.

Please find all presentations below:

9.00 Opening:Daniel Ayalew: The potential for economic analysis to support land reform processes with examples from World Bank project implementation and research